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BRASKAN
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Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska
VOL. XXXI V NO. 124.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1933.
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Millikan To Lecture Tuesday
UNIVERSITY TO HOLD
LAST CONVOCATION
Internationally Famous Scientist Presents Lecture
On Popular Scientific Subject at Coliseum
For Expected Audience of 6,000.
30 MINUTE ORCHESTRA
Speaker Has Received Nobel, Comstock Prizes; Edison
Faraday, Hughes, Mattencci Medals; Gained
Fame by Work With Cosmic Rays.
At the final all-university convocation of 1933. Dr. Robert A.
Millikan, internationally famous scientist, will address an ex
pected crowd of 6000 on a popular subject at the coliseum
Tuesday evening. The title of his address is "In the Coming
Century." There is no admission charge for the program.
The university orchestra, under O
the direction of Carl Frederic
Steckelberg. will give a thirty
minute concert of classical num
bers preceding the address, begin
ning at 8 o'clock. Chancellor
Emeritus Samuel Avery, who dur
ing war days In Washington hai
his office across the hall from that
of Dr. Millikan. will introduce him.
The convocation is the fourth
and last in the regular convocation
series arranged by Prof. J. O.
Hertzler and his committee. Dr.
Millikan will arrive in Lincoln late
Tuesday afternoon and will leave
at midnight after his address, to
his only appearance will be at the
coliseum.
Holds International Tame.
Hating high among the world's
great. Dr. Millikan holds doctor s
degrees from some twenty univer
sities, and many medals for out
standing achievement. Columbia,
Pennsylvania. New fork, Prince
ton, and Yale, as well as other
American schools have conferred
degrees upon him. Berlin, Dublin,
Ghent, and Liege have granted de
grees and established his interna
tional fame.
His awards are many, including
the Nobel prize, the Com?tock
prize from the National Academy,
the Faraday medal (London), the
Edison medal, the Hughes medal
from the Royal Society of Great
Britain, and the Mattencci roedil
from Italy. He is a chevalier of
the Legion of Honor in France. He
is at home in the scientific circles
of all countries and his addresses
are always widely commented up
on. He has arranged particularly
for a popular address in Lincoln.
Member of Chicago faculty.
In 1696 Dr. Millikan was an as
sistant in the physics department
at the University of Chicago. He
held various positions there umil
he became professor of physics in
1910 where be remained until 1921,
when he became director of the
Norman Bridge laboratory f
physics and chairman of the exec
utive council at the California In
stitute of technology.
Already famous as a physicist
and scientist. Doctor Millikan has
gained further renown thru his
work with cosmic rays in the last
few years. Tho not fully under
stood, even by scientists, these are
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Poll Reveals Students Buy
25,000 Textbooks
Every Term.
That Nebraska students buy ap
proximately 25,000 and sell about
17.000 each semester was revealed
by a poll of the student body taken
last fall, according to Irving Hill,
member of the student council
book exchange committee. Aver
aged, this figure shews that each
student buys about five books and
ells about 74 percent of them
every term.
Students receive about -7 per
cent of the original price when
selling used books under the book
store system now in operation on
the university campus, the pon
showed "obviously this is not a
fair return on the investment,
stated HilL The student council is
aiming to remedy the situation by
agitating for fie establishment of
a co-operative book exchange.
Memhers of the committee con
ducting a comprehensive poll of
other universities In the Lnlted
States, finds that three-fourths of
them have co-operative unvcty
bok exchanges. Of the one-fourth
which do not own them, "ne hall
are striving for a remedy. The oth
er half have private book stores
which have broujnt profit down
COUNCIL REUE
BOOKSTORE
AGENCIES
CONCERT BEFORE TALK
PLAYERS OPEN IN
'THE DARK TOW
University Dramatists Present Last Play of Current
Season for Week's Starting Monday; Harold
'Pete' Sumption Takes Leading Role.
With the most -notable cast
of their current season, the Uni
versity Players will open in
"The" Dark Toweiv" a three
act mystery melodrama by
Alexander Woollcott and George S.
Kaufman, at the Temple theater
Mondav. The play, which closses
the 1934-35 year of the Players,
will be presented nightly thru
Saturday.
Harold "Pete" Sumption, stage
director of the Players, beads the
mast as Damon Wells, an actor, in
a story concerning a family of ac
tors in New York City, and a mur
der committed among them. Ar
mani Hunter, prominent on the
Tample stage for the last three
years, plays the chief supporting
role of the villainous Stanley
Vance.
Elizabeth Betzer, of Lincoln, has
the chief feminine role of Jessica
Wells, wife of Vance, who holds a
strange hypnotic power over her.
Opposite her as Ben Weston is
Melvin Fielder, of Webster City,
Io-.va.
The cast, as announced Satur
day following a few minor changes
includes: "Hattie." played by
Margaret Carpenter, Lincoln;
"Martha Temple," by Veronica
Villnave. Casper. Wyo.; "Daphne
Martin." Margaret Straub; "Barry
Jones." Clare Wolf, Lincoln; 'Dr.
Kendall." Roy Squires. Hot
Springs, S. D-; "Max Sarnoff." An
ton Stengel, New York City: 'Pat
sy Dowling." Elsa Swift, Scotts
bluff; a taxi driver, Sidney Baker,
Lincoln: a bell-boy, Dwight Per
kins. Lincoln, and "William Cur
tis," police inspector, Era Lown.
Lincoln.
ALS RESULTS
POLL; CAMPUS
PROTE
PROFESSORS ATTED
ECONOMICS MEETISG
Faculty Members Travel
To Kansas City for
Contention.
Dean J. E. LeRossignol, Dr. J. E.
Kirshman. and Dr. G. O. Virtue of
the college of business administra
tion are on the program for the
meeting of the Midwest Economic
society in Kansas City April 11 to
13 Dean LeRossignol is chair
man of the Friday afternoon ses
sion; Dr. Kirshman will speak on
"Aims and Achievement of the
New Deal": an l Dr. Virtue will
lead a round table discussion on
federal finances.
Committee Member Dick Fis
cher Is making an extensive study
of housing conditions .thereby at
tempting to find an appropriate
location for a new book exchange.
He la also aiming to make connec
tions with other univers.ty stores
in an effort to find a method for
Nebraska to exchange with other
schools books not needed here for
books required
Lorraine Hitchcock, a member
of the committee, la conducting a
t, inin th tvDe and variety
of books needed in a university
. fwwik rxc hanze by contact with
J other book stores here.
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Courty Th Journal.
Dr. R. J. Pool.
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PHI BETA KAPPA
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Honorary Scholastic Group
Elects Prof. Orfield
Vice President.
Dr. R. J. Pool, professor of bot
any, was elected president of the
local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa,
honorary scholastic fraternity, at
the regular business meeting
Thursday evening in Social Science
105.
Other officers elected for the
coming year were Prof. Lester Or
field. vice president; Prof. James
Wadsworth. treasurer; Prof. Clif
ford M. Hicks, secretary, and Mrs.
A. W. Williams, historian.
Besides the election of officers,
reports were heard from a special
committee that is studying the re
quirements for eligibility of mem
bership to the organization.
Officers of Phi Beta Kappa for
the past year were: Prof. J. P.
Guilford, president; Prof. Ruth
Odell. vice president: Prof. Matilda
Peters, treasurer; Prof. Clifford M.
Hicks, secretary, and Mrs. A. W,
Williams, historian.
ST ACTION
NAMES DR
PO
PRESIDENT
Managers Say Solution
Lies in Faculty
Cooperation.
Solution to the student book
store problem lies In preventing
the changing of text books so fre
quently. This is the answer which
the managers of the Co-op book
store on the campus make Satur
day concerning the recent action
of the student council In attempt
ing to establish a student book ex
change here.
Tbey believe that if books were
used for more than one or two
semesters at a time, that they
would be able to guarantee high
er percent on used books and
could sell them at lower prices.
Another argument which they put
forth is that they are not given
the material on what books will be
used during the coming year.
Inquiring Into the used book sit
uation on other campuses. It has
been found that In four colleges
from at least thirty to sixty days
before the end of tie school year,
a list of books that are to be used
the next year along with the new
and used prices of these books is
passed around to the various mem
bers of the faculty for their ap
proval and is then submitted to
the various book dealers. In this
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t
URY AWARDS SIX
CENTS TO BLOWER
N SUIT FOR LIBEL
Homer Ayre Blower Favored
In Verdict Against
Nebraskan.
MOCK TRIAL ENDS FRIDAY
Defense Counsel Regards
Decision as 'Moral
Victory.'
Trial jury in tho court of
Judge Charles B. Nutting
awarded Horner Ayre Blower
six cents damages as the libel
suit against the Daily Nebras
kan closed Friday afternoon. Blow
er, congressman from Jefferson
state, had sued for $150,000 dam
ages, naming Daily Nebraskan
staff members and the publica
tions board as defendants. Each
of the1 defendants will share one
cent of the damages.
"We view the decision of the
court as a moral victory," declared
Maurice Akin, counsel for the de
fense, "since the bench did not up
hold the plaintiff's claim to the
principal sum."
Plaintiff Satisfied.
Rosenblatt and Easterday, at
torneys for the plaintiff, also ex
pressed satisfaction with the ver
dict and judgment. "We are happy
at the complete vindication of the
character of our client, as that was
the result we w?re seeking in the
damage suit," Rosenblatt stated.
"Money can never pay for taise
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Tense Moment
Appearing in Judge Nutting's ;
trial court in .the Nebraskan
Blower libel suit are. left to right:
Marylu Petersen, Nebraskan news
editor on the witness stand; Mau-
n,.r in F.iirone thev're still at
it While congressmen in Washing
ton were listening to suggestions
from Edward P. Wamer, federal
aviation commission member anJ
rmicr aorrptAt-v of the navy, to
h ffirf that nrmv and naw air
branches should be consolidated
in th future, leadine European
powers were seeking means oi
solving tneir complex numnij
nrohinTTii nermanv has let the
world know that she wants nol
rnmnlicnted Deace alliances but
she's willing to be satisfied with
hpr nresent boundaries ior ai least
ten years. Nazi officials indicated
that Hitler s aicxoraie wouiu,
wr Rltrn non-acfiression pacts
for a limited term, which British,
authorities seem to believe means
hut little
Strong willed Benito Mussolini!
hnnH tn nrejient a. DroOOSal fori
European peace security when!
ttreat Britain. France, and the
nremler meet at Stresa next
Thuradav to consider that im
portant matter. Meanwhile thous
and at his troors are mobilizing.
France, too, is on guard. Along!
the German border she is taking!
no chances, for there she haiJ
placed troops numbering several
thousand, and constructed fortifi
cations along miles and miles of
frontier. Steel, concrete, ana men
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COPY BRIEFS
By
FRED NCKLAS.
COUNCIL STARTS CAMPAIGN
TO SECURE LOAN FROM PWA;
CONGRESSMEN PLEDGE AID
Nebraska Congressmen Back
Council Move for New
Union Building.
AWAIT SIGNING PWA BILL
Norris, Burke, McLaughlin,
Luckey, Coffee, Stefan
Pledge Aid.
Nebraska's senators and
representatives in Washington
have pledged their support of
the Student Council's proposal
to ereet a student union build
ing on the university campus. Re
plying to a letter from Charles
Bursik, member, which inquired as
to the possibilities of their sup
port for a PWA allotment to erect
the building, the state's representa
tives approved the plan and in
dicated their co-operation in Wash
ington. "I think your proposal is a
most worthy one," wrote Con
gressman Henry C. Luckey of the
first district. "As an alumnus of
the University of Nebraska, hav
ing visited many other large uni
versities in this country and
abroad and having noted the fine
union buildings that many of the
institutions have, I am more con
vinced of our need for such a
building. Let me assure you that
1 will give your project my most
earnest and sympathetic considera
tion and co-operation."
Writes United States Senator
Edward R. Burke of Omaha, "I
will be glad to support a program
of this nature after additional
funds are made available to the
PWA. At the present time, the
president's program is held up be
cause of certain objectional amend
ments, but I trust that all will be
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During Nebraskan Libel Trial
rice Akin
defense counsel, hand
ing her exhibit A; Judge Charles
B. Nutting, behind his bench and
spectacles: court clerk Charles
Ledwith; Herman Rosenblatt and
To Faculty and Students:
On Tuesday evening, April
9. the University of Nebraska
will have as its guett one of
the most distinguished scien
tists of the day, Dr. Robert A.
Millikan. A great convocation,
under the auspices of the con
vocation committee of the uni
versity will be held in the coli
seum. Dr. Millikan has chosen
as his subject "In the Coming
Century" and the address will
be of such a character as to be
interesting to all of our stu
dent body. Beginning at eight
o'clock, the university orchestra
will give its annual concert for
thirty minutes preceding the
address.
In view of the very large au
dience expected, the university
is setting aside the first twenty
rows on the main floor of the
university coliseum as reserved
seats. The courtesy of these
seats will be extended to both
faculty and students, and their
friends. Members of the faculty
may obtain these tickeU at the
Chancellor's office and the
members of the student body
may obtain tickets for them
selves and their guests free of
charge, at the registrar's office.
It Is hoped that many students
will see fit to Invite their fath
ers and mothers for the occa
sion. All of the rest of the seats
in the coliseum will be open
without restriction to th gen
eral public.
E. A. Burnett, Chancellor.
Student Union
Executive Committee.
Jack Fischer, chairman.
Ray Ramsay, ex-officio.
Charles Bursik, secretary.
Lee Youn;r.
Virginia Selleck.
Irving- Hill.
Burton Marvin.
Burr Ross.
Corinne Claflin.
Dwight Perkins.
Bonnie Spanggaard.
Violet Cross.
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STARTED IN 1930
Alumni Association Began
First Building Drive
Five Years Ago.
In launching a concentrated
attack for a student union
buildimr Saturday, the student
council has revived an issue, the
successful culmination of which
has long been the dream of Ne
braska students and of supporters
of the university. Cherished by
members of the student body and
faculty alike, the idea of a union
building for the university has per
sisted for many years in the face
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Don Easterday, counsel for the
plainif. Invisible behind the ta
ble hides Howard Gillespie, attor
ney for the defense.
NTIA
STUDENT
UNION CAMPAIGN
PHOTOS OF UNION
BUILDINGS ARRIlf
Display Featuring Over 100 Pictures of Student Ac
. tivities Halls on American Campuses to Go on
Exhibition in Lincoln for Two Weeks.
A traveling exhibit of over a
hundred large, photographs of
student unions reached Lincoln
Saturday, according to Charles
Bcnish, secretary of the stu
dent union building committee.
This collection is part of the fa
cilities offered by the Association
of College Unions, of which Ne
braska in now an associate mem
ber, and it will be on display at
various places on the city and ag
campuses for the next two weeks.
The exhibit was last displayed
at the Minnesota Union and will be
sent to Utah from here. The
prints are uniformly mounted and
are beautiful pieces of photogra
phy, some in colors and others in
bromide and mezzo-tint, Bursik
stated. Included in the collection
are photographs of the Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas. Vander
bllt, Rochester, North Carolina,
. . . , in.k!.AH f Tnlin,
Houston Hall at Pennsylvania,
Fischer Announces Executive
Committee to Obtain
Campus Support.
PLAN TO SEEK $300,000
Regents Tentatively Give
Approval Following
Investigation.
Visions of a student union
building once more loomed hc-
fore Nebraska students today
as opening of a concentrated
drive to secure a PWA loan for
erection of a union building here
was announced by Jack Fischer,
president of the student council
which is sponsoring the campaign.
Preparing to marshall the sup
port of the entire student body,
the faculty and administration, the
alumni association and the various
campus organizations, Fischer
Saturday announced an executive
committee of ten students and Ray
Ramsay, alumni secretary, who
aided in preliminary negotiations,
to carry the huge project thru to
a successful conclusion.
Announcement of the campaign
came on the heels of the passage
by congress of the $4,800,000,000
public works appropriation bill
which President Roosevelt is ex
pected to sign into law next week
and which would make available
money for projects such as the
union building. Formal application
to the state PWA committee for
union building funds will probably
be made as soon as the federal
government designates the neces
sary procedure, it was learned.
Tentative plans which may be
revised are that $300,000 will be
sought for the union.
Group Investigates.
Thoro investigation of the proj
ect from every angle has been in
progress for more than six weeks,
Fischer declared, the council wish
ing to be sure that no legal bar
riers or technical errors would de
feat its efforts.
Officers of the executive commit
tee first met with the board of re
gents and presented the plan for
their sanction. The regents had
previously submitted to the state
planning board applications for
several buildings for the university
including a new library and new
University hall class building.
Upon investigation, the board
tentatively approved the union
building idea and is expected to in
clude application ofr it along with
its requests for other buildings. It
is understood, however, that a new
library would receive prior con
sideration if the university is to re
ceive PWA funds.
Probably Partial Loan.
Grant of union building funds
thru the PWA would probably tak j
the form of a partial loan with a
certain percent an outright dona
tion and the balance payable over
a period of some 20 or 30 years, it
was thought. Such a scheme would
entail the issuance of bonds as se
curity to the PWA by the univer
sity and could be accomplished
thru the medium of the dormitory
corporation which was created to
permit the financing of Carrie
Belle Raymond hall along similar
lines.
It was the legality of the issu
ance of bonds by the university
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Hart House at Toronto and Pelrce
Hall at Kenyon.
There are many prints of lounga
rooms, cafeterias, commons, bull-
rooms, lobbies, and recreation par
ir. fTirinM and eeneral land
scape scenes are also included, and
in all, the exhibit is very compiei
In it representation of union
buildings and should be of Interest
to everyone in the student body.
The announcement of the places
where the exhibit can be aeen will
appar Tuesday.
INSTRUCTORS ATTEND
CHICAGO CONVENTION
Dean F. E. Henzlik, Dr. S. M.
Corey, Dr. W. H. Morton, and Dr.
G. W. Rosenlof of the teachers col
lege leave Tuesday for Chicago
where they will attend the annual
meeting of the North OntrsJ as
sociation. Dean Henzlik and Dr.
Corey will speak on the program-
tc a reasonable ievei.
